Meg Little Reilly has been working at the intersection of civic engagement, journalism and higher education for more than twenty years.
She is the managing director of the Center for Community News at the University of Vermont, a national organization dedicated to strengthening student reporting and local news across the country.
Meg is a regular contributor to Forbes.com covering the future of journalism, information, and higher education.
Previously, Meg served under President Barack Obama in the U.S. White House as Deputy Associate Director for Communications and Strategy in the Office of Management and Budget and as Spokesperson at the Department of the Treasury. She has been a speechwriter to several university presidents and led communications at Convergence Center for Policy Resolution, a national think tank devoted to reducing toxic polarization in public life. Meg began her career at Vermont Public Radio. She has a B.A. from the University of Vermont and an M.A. from the George Washington University.
Meg’s work has appeared in the New York Times, McSweeney's, Literary Hub, Boston Globe, Chronicle of Philanthropy, San Pedro River Review, Sojourners, Politico, Times Higher Education, and public radio stations around the country. She is the author of the novels THE MISFORTUNES OF FAMILY, EVERYTHING THAT FOLLOWS, and WE ARE UNPREPARED, which has been translated into several languages. Her fourth book HOW TO BE ALIVE was a finalist for the Black Lawrence Press Big Moose Prize and she was a short story finalist for the Bellingham Review Tobias Wolff Award. She has been a judge for the Lambda Literary Awards.
Meg lives outside Burlington, Vermont with her two children, her partner Heather and their dogs.
